Sriram, > I am currently involved with WebStack project in OpenSolaris and would > like to add more extensions for recently integrated PHP so that > programmers can use our platform for development / production purposes. > Based on the some of the feedback we received from some customers > (outside Sun), it seems that we need to more database support within > PHP and this requires databases client libraries like Free TSD , Oracle > Instant Client and unixODBC to pre-exist on the system.
In principle I'm in favor of more drivers. However, I have a few questions: What's the licensing on the Oracle client? We can't necessarily just include proprietary SW on Opensolaris. FreeTDS is a bit beta-quality, so it would require some QA, and probably debugging for Solaris, first. Who's asking for this? Are there really a lot of users who have a DB server on Windows and a web server on Solaris? unixODBC/iODBC keeps coming up as an issue, but we're not seeing actual user requests. Do you have users with a need for it? That could affect the priority. --Josh
